Bow
2003-32-160
From: New Hebrides (uncertain)
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 2003-32-160 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | New Hebrides (uncertain) |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Wood | Metal | Plant Fiber |
| Description | Dark brown wood, very slightly bent at ends, with ca. 11 cm long hollows or notches running the length of the convex face. Ends capped with 15-16 cm. long curved metal tips. Bowstring of twisted bast (?) tied to bases of metal tips. Exhibited at l'Exposition universelle de Paris 1900. |
| Length | 142 cm |
| Width | 3.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1995.X.16082 - Other Number |
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